Living in Blackberry Heaven.. Indonesia

I have been living in Indonesia for 5 months, its an amazing place especially if your fan of blackberry. The country is rapidly developing and has a very large tech savvy young population. So I would like to share a few insights from my time here as a ďBuleĒ in the land of blackberry.

BBM usage here is unreal no matter what the smartphone the person is rocking they are usually hooked onto bbm. Unless someone owns a feature phone or android device that canít upgrade to 4.0.

Various android devices makers heavily advertise BBM in print, billboards and television. For example check out this commercial which airs quite frequently on television.

Many businesses have bbm pins written on their cards and adversities on posters and vehicles. For instance my hotel, laundry guy and hair salon all have pins.

That being said the instant messaging completion is fierce. Kako Talk is attempting to buy customers by partnering with places like McDonalds to promote their messenger. While Line and wechat (which I now love) have adverts everywhere. As a side note wechat features are awesome I hope the bbm team is taking note.
Nonetheless when it comes to reliability, bbm is the messenger of choice, This was most evident when I was outside an airport waiting for a friendís plane to arrive. Every single device around me whether a tablet or smartphone was on bbm.

Blackberry 10

Blackberry 10 sales seem to be going quite well here. I havenít seen any actual sales figures, nonetheless I see BB10 devices daily.. mostly q10s followed by z10s and the odd q5s.

Indonesian App Developers have not hesitated to port their android apps over to bb10 or create one natively. I would say the whole region in general have been supportive of Blackberry 10. There are big name apps like Air Asia and little useful ones like Singaporeísí Changi Airport,. As well companies here often promote their apps by placing the blackberry world logo before Apple or Google play.

Anyways Iím on a prepaid blackberry 10 plan that costs $ 5.6 USA a month and strangely I only paid once and worked ever since thatís 5 months for 5 bucksÖ love this country.

India was like this 2-3 years ago. I remember the iPhone craze had begun in the West and it was still too expensive to be popular here. Then suddenly my whole country got rich and now everybody has a iPhone or some Samsung ****.

Australia used to have good BlackBerry support and quite an active marketing team.
However things have changed and they're now virtually non-existent. The @BlackBerry_AU account was abandoned and the Facebook page hasn't been updated since September 2013.

If only BlackBerry sells their Z10s here in Indonesia at $200, it's going to boom. Many people will jump the ship immediately from legacy devices. Legacy devices cost around $180-200, so people would definitely get Z10 at $200 instead of legacy devices. Hope Jakarta fits that price range, and we'll see how it goes.

Amazing thread. Thanks for the video and photos. What a contrast. I knew Indonesia was a great market only because Mr. Chen was talking about the latest BlackBerry device being launched there. Sitting here across the world, this really puts some perspective on it though. If only North America had this enthusiasm. Still hoping. Anyway, thanks again.

I have been living in Indonesia for 5 months, its an amazing place especially if your fan of blackberry. The country is rapidly developing and has a very large tech savvy young population. So I would like to share a few insights from my time here as a ďBuleĒ in the land of blackberry.

BBM usage here is unreal no matter what the smartphone the person is rocking they are usually hooked onto bbm. Unless someone owns a feature phone or android device that canít upgrade to 4.0.

Various android devices makers heavily advertise BBM in print, billboards and television. For example check out this commercial which airs quite frequently on television.

Many businesses have bbm pins written on their cards and adversities on posters and vehicles. For instance my hotel, laundry guy and hair salon all have pins.

That being said the instant messaging completion is fierce. Kako Talk is attempting to buy customers by partnering with places like McDonalds to promote their messenger. While Line and wechat (which I now love) have adverts everywhere. As a side note wechat features are awesome I hope the bbm team is taking note.
Nonetheless when it comes to reliability, bbm is the messenger of choice, This was most evident when I was outside an airport waiting for a friendís plane to arrive. Every single device around me whether a tablet or smartphone was on bbm.

Blackberry 10

Blackberry 10 sales seem to be going quite well here. I havenít seen any actual sales figures, nonetheless I see BB10 devices daily.. mostly q10s followed by z10s and the odd q5s.

Anyways Iím on a prepaid blackberry 10 plan that costs $ 5.6 USA a month and strangely I only paid once and worked ever since thatís 5 months for 5 bucksÖ love this country.

Hey I didn't know Axis have that prepaid plan lol !
Yeah every vendor put bbm on their ad now, even Samsung!

Its not that everyone got rich, it was the EMI option they launched for iPhones here. But I still hate iPhone/ Samsung

Originally Posted by loyalIND

That does sound like heaven......

India was like this 2-3 years ago. I remember the iPhone craze had begun in the West and it was still too expensive to be popular here. Then suddenly my whole country got rich and now everybody has a iPhone or some Samsung ****.

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